Products

Pacific Life Insurance Company and Pacific Life&Annuity Company have introduced the "Road to Retirement" guide and the Retirement Income Needs fact finder to help financial professionals address the...

Metrics Partners, an electronic marketing firm for the retirement industry, has introduced a new web-based search tool connecting plan producers with third party administrators (TPAs).

MetLife Investors Distribution Company, the distributor of products offered by the independent distribution arm of MetLife, has launched a marketing campaign designed to help advisers address their clients'...

Pershing LLC, a unit of The Bank of New York Mellon, has launched a new program designed to offer broker-dealer customers and their investment professionals solutions and best...

John Hancock College Savings has launched a multi-week back-to-school campaign for the busy 529 sales season, providing information and tools to financial consultants.

401(k) Advisors has enhanced its Scorecard System to measure the performance of asset allocation portfolios, known as lifestyle and lifecycle, or target date, funds.

Northern Trust will offer target date collective funds that are globally diversified and incorporate inflationary hedge asset classes such as global real estate and commodities, in addition to...

Invest n Retire, LLC has come out with a product that analyzes the investment allocation of employees’ plan contributions to determine whether the investment option is under-weighted or...

UBS Global Asset Management has come out with a new generation of UBS TargetRetirement Collective Funds that use an actively managed approach.

Reserve Solutions is now offering what it says is a more flexible way for employees to borrow money from their 401(k) accounts.

The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index Group has unveiled the Markets Defender Basket, an online basket of hedge fund sector indexes, based on the Credit Suisse/Tremont Sector Invest...

Securian Retirement Distributors says that 11 new investment options are now available to qualified retirement plan sponsors.

American Independence has added international securities to its NestEgg Dow Jones Target Date Funds and has reduced the expense ratios of each of the share classes of the...

Former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Branch Chief and consumer advocate Pat Huddleston has launched Investor's Watchdog, a company that provides investors with intelligence and expertise to...

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has announced the launch of the iShares S&P World ex-U.S. Property Index Fund on the NYSE.

EPIC Advisors, Inc. announced it will now offer retirement plan investment management services as part of its suite of retirement plan products.

John Hancock Funds recently launched a new retirement portfolio calculator on its Web site.

Claymore Securities, Inc. on Monday launched the Claymore/Robb Report Global Luxury Index ETF (exchange-traded fund) on the New York Stock Exchange.

Daiwa Asset Management and global index provider FTSE Group have announced the launch of the FTSE Shariah Japan 100 Index from which Daiwa will create an exchange-traded fund...

SunTrust Banks has introduced GamePlan, a free service to help individuals understand their needs in retirement and overcome procrastination about retirement planning.